Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 240 PagesRelease Date: 29th March 2009Publisher: The Penguin GroupFormats Available: Hardback, Paperback, CD-Audio, Audio CassettePurchasing Info: Laurie Halse Anderson, Good Reads, Book Depository
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After Melinda goes through a traumatic and violent incident at a summer party, she calls the cops and becomes a social outcast. Her freshman year is a disaster. As time passes, she stops talking–except through her paintings in art class. Her healing process has just begun when her perpetrator attacks again. Only this time, she doesn’t keep silent.
My Thoughts:It was through various blog posts for Banned Book Week that Speak came to my attention. I’d never even heard of it until then. The controversy over subject matter in this was the main issue and in some school libraries it was actually banned. This was the clincher …
Format read: eBookNumber of pages: 256 pagesRelease date: July 13, 2010Source: Review copy provided by author Formats available: eBook, HardcoverPurchasing info: Goodreads, Amazon, Books on Board, author’s website
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What would you do if the love of your life was murdered by a deranged killer? Would you become a vigilante and seek retribution? And would this revenge affect those you care for in the afterlife?
LOGIC OF DEMONS The Quest for Nadine’s Soul takes you on a journey inside the psyches of men and women forced to deal with the spiritual consequences of their decisions. Through the lives of a demon, two Angels, and a mysterious teenage girl, a plethora of politically and socially relevant issues ranging from the roots of genocide and sex trafficking to child conscription and religious fundamentalism are addressed in this fantasy thriller. Life as …
Format read: eBookNumber of pages: 256 pages
Release date: 2 February 2010
Source: Review copy provided by author Formats available: eBookPurchasing info: Goodreads, Amazon
For more information visit Monique Martin’s offical website
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New York in the 1920’s is the world of Prohibition, speakeasies and an underground run by the underworld. Vampires and mobsters vie for power in the seedy underbelly of Manhattan.
A mysterious accident sends Professor Simon Cross and his assistant, Elizabeth West back in time to face demons real and imagined.
Simon Cross has spent his life searching for vampires and now that he’s found one, it just might take from him the only woman he’s ever loved. Simon’s life has been a ritual of research into the occult and stoic solitude. He prefers it that way. Until he meets Elizabeth West.
A gambler’s daughter, Elizabeth knows …
Format Read: e-BookNumber of Pages: 240 pagesPublisher: Carina PressRelease date: October 25, 2010Formats Available: e-BookSource: Review Copy provided by NetGalley courtesy of Carina Press Purchase information: Goodreads, Carina Press, Author Website
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When Kenan, an incubus, finds a caged angel for sale in the Hellsgate marketplace, he sees her as a challenge. Certain that his skills in seduction will work as well on a heavenly creature as they do on mortal women, he buys Jahel, intent on having her soul as a novelty in his collection.
Knowing he must gain Jahel’s trust if she is to come to his bed willingly, Kenan treats her more as his guest than as his slave. When she reveals what brought her to the mouth of Hell in the first place-retrieving the soul of a young girl she was …
Format Read: e-BookNumber of Pages: 240 pagesPublisher: Carina PressRelease date: October 11, 2010Formats Available: e-BookSource: Review Copy provided by NetGalley courtesy of Carina Press Purchase information: Goodreads, Carina Press, Amazon, All Romance/OmniLit, Author Website
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Sorcha Logan is looking for peace.
Recently returned to her hometown on Scotland’s craggy coast, Sorcha wants to tame the spirits that made her flee. When she finds a corpse in the surf, however, she can’t suppress the memory of discovering her father’s body. Nor can she suppress the ghosts that haunt her—or the town’s conviction that she’s dangerous, and a witch.
Ben Foley is looking for a killer.
An American DEA agent, Ben is in town to investigate the suspicious death of his partner. He’s sure that Sorcha knows more than she’s letting on—but the more time he …
Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 264 pagesRelease Date: 22 June 2010Publisher: Hyperion TeensFormats Available: Paperback.Purchasing Info: Book Depository, Elizabeth Rudnick, Good ReadsBook Blurb:
Claire is a #hopelessromantic. Lottie is determined to set up her BFF with Mr. Perfect. Will wants his #secretcrush to finally notice him. Bennett is a man with a plan.
Claire can’t believe it when her dream guy starts following her on Twitter. She never thought he noticed her, and suddenly he seems to understand her better than almost anyone.
But the Twitterverse can be a confusing place, especially when friends act differently online than they do in person. Things get even more complicated when Claire realizes she’s falling for someone else, the last person she ever would have expected….
Told in an innovative format combining tweets, emails, and blogs, Tweet …
Format read: eBookNumber of pages: 384 pages
Release date: 1 November 2010
Publisher: AvonSource: Review copy provided by publisher through NetGalley Formats available: eBook, paperback
Purchasing info: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle Store, Book Depository
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Known throughout London for his prowess in the bedroom, Morgan Lyons, the 8th Earl of Westcliffe, cannot forgive an unpardonable affront to his honor. Discovering his young bride in the arms of his brother was a staggering blow–so he banished the beautiful deceiver to the country and devoted himself to the pursuit of carnal pleasure.
Claire Lyons was an innocent, frightened girl on her wedding day, seeking chaste comfort from a childhood friend. Now, years later, she has blossomed magnificently and has returned to London with one goal in mind: the seduction of her …
Format Read: Trade PaperbackNumber of Pages: 320 pagesPublisher: Berkley Trade Release Date: November 2nd, 2010Formats Available: Trade Paperback, eBookPurchase information: Goodreads, Author Website, Amazon, The Book Depository US, The Book Depository UK
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WORTH THE WAIT
Ella Tipton is a survivor. In the wake of an attack that left her nearly dead, she’s spent each day putting her life back together. Once vibrant and outgoing, she’s needed to reclaim the best parts of who she was while retaining the hard won lessons. There hasn’t been room for any romantic entanglements, even if she were ready. Still, it didn’t mean she had to stop sneaking looks at Mister Tall, Dark and Tattooed himself.
Security professional Andrew Copeland isn’t quite sure when his jones for the lovely and decidedly skittish Ella developed. He’s known her for years, has …
Format Read: BookNumber of Pages: 273 pagesPublisher: L&L Dreamspell Release date: December 2009Formats Available:Paperback, eBookSource: Review Copy provided by the author. Purchase information: Goodreads, L&L Dreamspell, Amazon, Kindle Store, All Romance/OmniLit, Fictionwise, Author Website
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CIA Human Intelligence Operator, Charley Duston gets the shock of her life when she opens her freezer to find the picture of her murdered ex-lover. Worse is the implied message: She is next. Not one to give into intimidation tactics, Charley is determined to uncover the truth behind her ex’s death and bring the culprits to justice. Not knowing whom she can trust, she moves to an undisclosed location where she can covertly investigate the death threats. Here she meets her new neighbor Jake Frisbie at gunpoint …
Format Read: eBookNumber of Pages: 196 pagesPublisher: Carina PressRelease date: 28 June 2010Formats Available: eBookSource: Review copy provided by publisher through NetGalley Purchase information: Goodreads, Carina PressFor more information visit Leah Braemel’s website
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Thanks to her cheating ex-husband and her thieving brother, all horse breeder Nikki Kimball has left is a bruised heart, an overdrawn bank account and an empty home. When sex-on-legs Dillon Barnett and his brooding foster-brother Brett Anderson start showing more than just neighborly attention, Nikki is intrigued…and a little gun-shy.
Dillon and Brett have a history; back in high school, the two friends fought a bitter battle over Nikki. Now, ten years later, Brett still longs to be the man in Nikki’s life, but he’s determined to stand back and let Dillon win Nikki’s heart.
Society …